Thursday, October 31, 2013

So over the past three years I haven't been releasing a lot of games. But other than Hotline Miami, Life/Death/Island and Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf here's some of the stuff I never got around to finishing, plus some non-game things.

A game for Halloween that focused on the darker side of magic. A subject I don't think has been explored very well, especially not in games.

I'm not sure what Death Space was supposed to be about, other than that it was a platformer. I like the graphics in it though.

Kind of the same deal here. The graphics are constantly moving and creates a rather nauseating effect. Don't remember getting any further than basic mechanics for jumping and shooting. A bit of a shame.

This was supposed to be my entry for the first 7DFPS if I remember correctly. Couldn't come up with a good idea for gameplay.

Glitchy graphics that I had vague plans to turn into some sort of shoot em up. Never got anywhere with this really.

My Nordic Game Jam game that I never finished. Wanted to try making a local multiplayer game, but I was too tired to get it into a playable state.

Inspired by Receiver, wanted to turn it into Krebswelte 2 with lots of mechanics for world interaction, but never got further than intricate reloading of guns.

This was supposed to be a remake of a game I made just as I started out making games back in 2004. Basically a stealth game about terrorists.

I wanted to make a spiritual sequel to Stench Mechanics, but it never got anywhere besides graphics and movement. It looked really nice though.

Monday, October 28, 2013

I decided to look through this year's IGF entrants and see if I could find some interesting new games to be excited about. I chose to only write about games I had never heard of before, so a lot of really good looking games were left out. Might write a list of those later.

CAVE! CAVE! DEUS VIDET!

All I know about this game is that it's centered around Hieronymus Bosch, it's a graphic novel type of game, the plot doesn't sound terrible and the trailer is very nice.

Denisovan

A "fictional imagining of a girl who died 40,000 years ago" apparently. It doesn't really look like a game I would necessarily enjoy playing, but the trailer did intrigue me.

Savage: The Shard of Gosen

This one I chose to list mostly because I found the graphics full of charm and it seems like a game the creators really put their heart into.

Some Thing Clicked

I have no idea what this is about but I absolutely loved the trailer.

Crypt Worlds: Your Darkest Desires, Come True

Parts of this trailer look very surreal and the graphics ooze of retro 3D charm at times. Leaves me with a mixed impression as the gameplay seen in the video didn't really click with me.

ASUNDER - Earthbound

Apparently this is an Occulus Rift game. I see potential in the premise even if I did have problems with some of the execution. I just hope the final bit in the trailer isn't an indication that this will end up being a typical survival horror/zombie game...

Spate

Not sure at all what I think of this, but the graphics are at least kinda nice.

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I'm a game developer living in Gothenburg, Sweden. I've been making small freeware games since 2004.
My aim is to create interesting things, whether it be through visuals or gameplay mechanics. A lot of the games on my site are just small experiments dressed up as games. I'm glad that people still seem to enjoy them.